You might already have noticed that I am trying to improve my Copic skills which is why I am using them all the time right now. But bear with me for there will be cards with other (colouring) techniques again soon - I think ;o) With this piece I tried something new for the grass. Usually I colour a solid area and use a slightly darker colour for the shading. This time however I made short horizontal strokes with my markers YG05, YG09, G05 & G09 and used the W4 to sketch in the shadows. This grass-technique was inspired by Sandy Allnock again.

I stamped the cute snails in a light grey on the background of my card and coloured the one on the lower right to give that part of the card some interest. Then I die cut a tag from the coloured scene using the partial die-cutting technique, because I wanted the smaller one of the flowers to hang over the edge of the tag. (I used the same technique on this card and explained it in a little more detail.) For the small part that wasn't cut I used my scissors. Before adding the tags to my card base I stamped the word "hello" in Versamark on the very bottom of the tag and used white embossing powder on it to let the sentiment shine.